Get the London Look: Oxford Shmoxford

Today we visited the beautiful and COLD town of Oxford and saw some of the colleges. We also were able to take a tour of C.S. Lewis' home. This was really neat and we all had a great time. I'm pretty sure I thought to myself "hmm self, what are the worst possible boots you can wear to walk around in the snow?" and I put those on. We missed a big snow storm in Tennessee but let me tell you we got a gorgeous one here in England. BUT, my feet are KILLED and I'm pretty sure I know what frostbite is now! Look at these things...

Yeah, they're done for. I am searching for some weather boots. I might just break down and buy Hunter rain boots. EEK!!!

So anyway, this is C.S. Lewis' home in Oxford. We walked down a long path covered in snow and saw a frozen over pond where he used to swim when he lived there. There are currently five students in his home now that give tours a few times a week.

Walking to Lewis' home

Sydney and I

The Kilns

Frozen Pond!

So after most of us toured his home, the whole group ate at a pub called The Eagle and Child where C.S. Lewis enjoyed meeting with J.R.R. Tolkien to discuss their writings. The food was SO GOOD, I had tomato soup and a chicken bacon sandwich with mulled cider. It was fab.

After lunch our Stats teacher took us around Oxford to see some different colleges. My favorite was Christ Church, where much of the Harry Potter movies were filmed. This was really neat to see. I thought this university was really cool because it is really divided up. Where our school is one big campus, Oxford takes up the whole town, and each college has it's own separate facilities. Students sleep, eat and study in their individual colleges. So interesting!

We've got a day to sleep in before another week of Stats, then off to PARIS we go for the weekend! Can't WAIT for that! Here's some pictures from Oxford.